Consideration in the Short: Humanist Heart-Wandering, Sensibility
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/06/30
A humanist outlook is a bit like looking at the world from the moon without borders, boundaries, and imposed artifice of human conceptualization. Or take the thought experiment of the common map of the world, the Mercator Projection: It is warped.
Countries and continents can look bigger than the reality or smaller than in real life, in relation to one another, based on the warpage in the dimension imposed by the image. It is, as it says, a projection.
A way to look at the world through humanist eyes and the human oriented world in this manner can feel alien, hence the moon example. But it is the world before the imposition of common superstition and inaccurate empirical culture is forced upon us.
Take, for example, the idea of language, everyone has the capacity for language. Therefore, as per a common theoretical framework about language, there is a common linguistic structure, elegant, simple, capable of the production of the variety of world languages.
Same with our perception of the world. We come with these capacities. My sincere take away from individuals who have left religious orthodoxy, in its ill-begotten children, have to take a process of weeks to years to remove the poisoning of their linguistic and conceptual faculties.
The more entrenched the religious orthodoxy, then the, and I agree with Hypatia entirely on this point, more painful the removal of those superstitions. There are no ghosts in the machine.
However, there are ghosts in the communicative capacities of the machine. These produce a form of deep illusion. And also further agreeing on Hypatia’s point, the deeper the illusions indoctrinated in him youth; the more painful the removal of them.
A glorious freedom sits on the other side without the imposition one witnesses in the midst of the standard indoctrination found in North American culture. Everyone has the capacity for it, as everyone had the original standard sentiment in it. In the same way we teach a mercator projection; we’re teaching another warpage in a reliance on adult fantasy and role-playing, typified in religious
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